RibbonDropDown selecteditem depending on ItemProperty.

[chris]

Hi,

I have a RibbonDropDown with 10 values. This RibbonDropDown is placed inside
a Ribbon (designer). This Ribbon is set to display on Mail.Read in the
Message tab. When I open an email I need to get the value of an ItemProperty
of the current Inspector (the MailItem I am opening) and set a default value
in the RibbonDropDown. Setting the default value is not the problem. What I
am having trouble with is placing the code in the right place. I tried to do
it on the Activate event for the current Inspector but that seems to fire
only when I set the current window to the active window, not when I open the
email. I also tried when a new inspector is created, but that doesn't work
either.

How can I achieve this?

Thanks for the help.

 

[Ken Slovak - [MVP - Outlook]]

The first Activate() event is the correct place for your code. Before that
the item properties and Inspector properties aren't fully filled in (you
have weak object references). When you open an item it will always fire an
Activate() event, use that.

 

[chris]

Thanks for the reply!

I have tried putting the code in the Activate event handler, but I can see
the item selected only on the rest of the of the times when the Activate is
executed, not on the first one. Am I not picking up the Current Inspector
correctly?

void Inspector_Activate()
{
Outlook.MailItem email =
(Outlook.MailItem)Globals.ThisAddIn.ActiveInspector().CurrentItem;
Outlook.ItemProperty item =
(Outlook.ItemProperty)email.ItemProperties["myId"];
if(item != null)
{
// code here
}
}


Thanks!

 

[Ken Slovak - [MVP - Outlook]]

You should be handling Inspectors.NewInspector() and instantiating an
Activate() handler for that new Inspector. Why are you then getting
ActiveInspector() which most likely will not point where you want until
after the Activate() event fires?